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Officially now excited after two trailers about upcoming monster movie 'Cloverfield'. The presence of 9/11 is startling in these clips, some of it is shot for shot what we saw on the newsreels!! Especially the smoke passing outside the shop window, and the way in which a crowd moves during a disaster when viewed through a handheld camera on the ground.

It look rather good, it's a good time to be alive if you're a fan of dystopian futures.:D

http://www.torrentspy.com/ (window on first page showing clip)

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21492
 
Isn't it more about a giant monster stomping NY in the the ground than about a dystopian future ? Kind of Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla.
 
Reno said:
Isn't it more about a giant monster stomping NY in the the ground than about a dystopian future ? Kind of Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla.
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Yeah, it's not dystopian like 1984 was....er....is.....it's about a monster - but it is set in the future, and it does portray the future negatively, so I stretched dystopian coz I couldn't think of another word which conveyed the idea of a negatively portrayed future....hic*
 
I've been suckered in by the trailer and the 'viral hype' help! help! Those advertising execs have got their claws in me and control my brain!!!!!
 
pinkychukkles said:
I've been suckered in by the trailer and the 'viral hype' help! help! Those advertising execs have got their claws in me and control my brain!!!!!
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Quite.... does look fucking good though :cool:
 
I think its gonna be one of those 'the marketing campaign was more fun than the film' type films if you know what I mean.
 
What else did the production company 'Bad Robot' do?

It's going to annoy me as I remeber their ident thing on some programe.

And what a rubbish name Cloverfield is. It sounds like some Sunday night drama on BBC1.
 
Due to the relentless interweb hype I'm already bored with this.

As for 2008 monster movies I'm more excitied about Frank Darabont's The Mist, which is based on one of the best things Stephen King has written and which got decent reviews when it came out in the US a couple of months ago. It has a great cast too.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0884328/
 
Balbi said:
But King adaptations often go askew. He's like a text only Alan Moore :D
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Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Stand by Me, Christine, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Shawnshank Redemption, The Green Mile and 1409 are all good films, some of them are classics. Your comparison to Moore doesn't hold water. How many good films have been made out of his graphic novels ?

Unlike Cloverfield, The Mist has already been released to mostly excellent reviews in the US, so there is more reason to be excited about it for me than Cloverfield which looks like a mixture of Blair Witch and the US remake of Godzilla, neither of which set my world on fire. I also hated Lost, Alias and Mission Impossible 3, all of them made by JJ Abrahams, so I'm not very excited about this.
 
Balbi said:
But King adaptations often go askew. He's like a text only Alan Moore :D
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Reno said:
Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Stand by Me, Christine, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Shawnshank Redemption, The Green Mile and 1409 are all good films, some of them are classics.
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Dyamn. I haven't seen someone pwnd that badly since the Hatton fight.
 
Taxamo Welf said:
Dyamn. I haven't seen someone pwnd that badly since the Hatton fight.
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You obviously haven't read of the recent PWNing of a spammer on another forum
 
That's either gonna be the shit or actual shit. I'd go with the later until I'm shown otherwise.

Oh, and is it all in that handheld camera styless? That would annoy me after about 20 minutes I reckon.
 
It's good. An reasonably original take on the monster movie.

More originality, that's what we want. :)
 
Reno said:
Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Stand by Me, Christine, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Shawnshank Redemption, The Green Mile and 1409 are all good films, some of them are classics.
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Carrie, The Shining, Stand by Me were all good films.

Haven't seen Dolores Claiborne or Green Milie

Salem's Lot, the Dead Zone, Christine were all a bit crap i seem to remember
 
Went to see it tonight - pretty good :)

Not *quite* as heart-poundingly exciting as it could have been, and you almost wanted the smugly gorgeous NY hipsters to be gobbled by a monster, but other than that, I liked it a lot.

OH said that it the first person running-down-corridors style reminded him of video games - very involving and engrossing.
 
Reno said:
Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Stand by Me, Christine, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Shawnshank Redemption, The Green Mile and 1409 are all good films, some of them are classics. Your comparison to Moore doesn't hold water. How many good films have been made out of his graphic novels ?
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Spot on. In fact it's hard to think of a writer who translates better to the big screen on such a consistent basis. :cool:
 
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